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Brazilian Farmers Are Tokenizing Cows to Get Farm Loans—And It’s Working

Brazilian farmers are using AI-powered electronic chips to tokenize their livestock and secure agricultural loans. Fazenda Engenho Velho obtained a R$100,000 loan backed by...

Google signs EU AI Act code of practice on transparency, joining Microsoft and OpenAI

Google announced on July 30 its intent to join the European Union's General Purpose AI Code of Practice, a voluntary framework based on the...

Meta snags 1,000 acres in El Paso for $8.5M to build a 1 GW AI data center

Meta has purchased roughly 1,039 acres of land in Northeast El Paso, Texas, for approximately $8.5 million, or about $8,156 per acre. The company...

Black Forest Labs Unveils FLUX 3 AI: Ditches Stills for Video—And Robot Hands

Black Forest Labs launched FLUX 3 in early access, its first model that generates video up to 20 seconds with synchronized audio, moving beyond...

Netanyahu to meet Trump at White House Tuesday for talks on Iran, security

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday, according to a report...

Trump’s Ratepayer Protection Pledge faces skepticism as data centers devour the grid

The Trump administration launched the « Ratepayer Protection Pledge » on March 4, 2026, a voluntary commitment asking hyperscale data center operators to self-generate...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang joins partners to advocate for open-weight AI models

Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, made his first-ever post on X in the form of a letter advocating for open-weight AI models that can...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang posts on X for the first time, drops open letter on AI policy

Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, posted on X for the first time on July 24, sharing an open letter arguing that open AI models...